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Young Carl Rowan has done well since he left his home town of McMinnville, Tenn. eight years ago. He won a Navy V12 scholarship, got one of the few Navy commissions given to Negroes, took a master's degree at the University of Minnesota and went to work as a reporter for the Minneapolis morning Tribune (circ. 185,500). Two months ago, Newshawk Rowan persuaded his editor to let him make a 6,000-mile tour by bus, train and rented cars of 13 Southern states for a series of stories. Last week, the Tribune began front-paging...
...leave jobs and family to go to war, and because of the factors which led these people to the field of medicine rather than West Point, they may well want to leave even less. I think that it is only fair to point out that there were ASTP and V12 students in many fields other than medicine and dentistry, but I have yet to hear of a draft of engineers, chaplains, or language students. Because pilots are trained at Government expense, they are not asked to fly at private's pay as has been suggested...
Main target of Washington's propaganda barrage was the pool of 7,500 physicians who did not see active duty, though they got their training during and after World War II at Government expense in ASTP and V12 programs. (Almost twice as many, similarly trained, put in their two years.) Editorialized the Journal of the American Medical Association: "The moral obligation that rests on them to serve the nation in this time of need is clear and unequivocal...
...Yale, where 1,900 V12 students are stationed, the show was a must for all trainees. To the rest of the U.S., it promised as close a secondhand view of war as most civilians are likely...
...years Jesuit St. Louis University's chapter of Phi Beta Pi, a medical fraternity, had put new pledges through this initiation ritual. Robert Perry, a Navy V12 trainee, was no different from the others. But when his turn came last week, a spark caused by a short circuit in the coil ignited ether fumes from the bottle of collodion, set off a flash of blue flame that enveloped him. Perry leaped up wildly, ran smack into a wall. Several of the brothers grabbed him, rubbed out the flames with their hands, then rushed him to the University...